• Building green cloud services at low cost 

      Berral García, Josep Lluís; Goiri, Iñigo; Nguyen, Thu D.; Gavaldà Mestre, Ricard; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Bianchini, Ricardo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
      Comunicació de congrés
      Accés obert
      Interest in powering datacenters at least partially using on-site renewable sources, e.g. solar or wind, has been growing. In fact, researchers have studied distributed services comprising networks of such “green” datacenters, ...
    • Matching renewable energy supply and demand in green datacenters 

      Goiri, Iñigo; Haque, Md E.; Le, Kien; Beauchea, Ryan; Nguyen, Thu D.; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Bianchini, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2015-02-01)
      Article
      Accés obert
      In this paper, we propose GreenSlot, a scheduler for parallel batch jobs in a datacenter powered by a photovoltaic solar array and the electrical grid (as a backup). GreenSlot predicts the amount of solar energy that will ...